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Linda,
This website is for cancer survivors and their caregivers. Radiologists are trained to distinguish cancer masses from benign masses. The best test to check for metastic cancer is a PET/CT scan. My lung mets were found by a routine CT scan and my brain met by a routine brain scan. Cancer is a very scary disease and is very unpredictable. When does your mother have a follow up appointment to discuss the results of the PET scan? the worst part of this dreadful disease is waiting for test results. I'll keep your mother in my prayers. And if it is Stage IV there are many treatment options available. Don't give up.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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